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tailings pond Articles

Location: Canada Year: 2012 Working context Oil Sand - Tailing pond dredging - The standard industry practice is to pump oil sands tailings into large settling ponds. There, the heaviest material settles to the bottom, separating from the top layer of water which can be recycled. The problem Oil ...

Syncrude Canada produces a large part of Canada's crude oil supply. The company processes about 225,000 bbl/day. The oil produced is used for jet and automobile fuel, home heating oil, plastics and other consumer synthetics. Crude oil is produced through a process of mining, extracting and upgrading bitumen. A rich supply of bitumen is contained in the Athabasca oil sands deposit in northern ...

New Logic International installed its Vibratory Shear Enhanced Processing (VSEP) system in March, 1998 at a major California rare earth mining and manufacturing facility. The VSEP is used for treatment of mine tailing pond effluent at this facility with no pretreatment required. The VSEP system uses nanofiltration followed by ultrafiltration membrane modules and is able to treat the mine tailing ...

YEAR: 2009 COUNTRY: MEXICO N° and MACHINERY MODEL EMPLOYED: 3 GHT 2000.P13 MEM Diemme® Filtration The customer, a silver Mine in Mexico, had just started up a new 3500 t/d cyanidation plant to increase its silver bar production to 115 t/y. The problems relevant to the adoption of this solution were: ...

Location: Indonesia Year: 2011 Working context Mine collection pond dredging The problem Increase the mine pond capacity. The customer, who already had an excavator, had to increase the mine pond capacity removing the sand. Customer was looking for a dredging solution which was able to modify the ...

Location: Indonesia Year: 2011 Working context Mine collection pond dredging The problem Increase the mine pond capacity. The customer, who already had an excavator, had to increase the mine pond capacity removing the sand. Customer was looking for a dredging solution which was able to modify the flow during ...

Introduction An EU Directive is forcing waste disposal sites, such as refuse tips and landfills, to upgrade their anti-leaching precautions. This is especially the case in Sweden. Here, in its home market, Trelleborg is able to provide these sites with an environmentally friendly, seam-weldable rubber membrane to meet the stringent new requirements. An EU Directive came is now in force ...

THE CHALLENGE A typical phosphate mining operation can produce between 180,000 and 225,000 gallons per minute of fine phosphatic clay tailings. This material has a solids concentration of between 2% and 7% on a dry-solids basis. Currently, ponds and lagoons are used for settling and clarification of these materials. Many of these polishing ponds are approximately 200 to 300 acres in size, ...

The present study investigates the spreading of radioactive materials through groundwater by developing a groundwater contaminant transport model. The model was analysed in the steady state, and was then applied in the transient state to predict the spreading of uranium and its daughter product in the region. The model was verified using the simulated and measured velocity of groundwater. It was ...

The minerals industry has faced increasing pressures in recent years in the management of tailings streams. Environmental, economic and other factors have led many minerals producers to explore the technology of making and using “paste.” With the increasing number of installations worldwide, this technology has proved to not only be industry accepted, but economically advantageous. ...

How do you clean a stormwater management pond (SMWP) without draining the pond first? A clean-out of the SWMP is required once every 5-15 years to remove accumulated sediments to ensure the pond continues to function as intended. Drainage of the SWMP is not always required to facilitate the clean-out. By combining the pumping and excavation into one process! New pumping technology - Dragflow ...

Analytical techniques were combined with geochemical modelling to study the release mechanisms of pollutants from an abandoned gold mining tailings storage facility near Johannesburg. Inverse modelling of sampled tailings pond water and experimental single extractions using various solutions indicated which combination of naturally occurring leaching solutions were likely to give rise to the ...

Simple and inexpensive, Geotube dewatering technology can make management of tailings and fines much easier. Many aggregate plants experience high equipment and manpower costs associated with the handling and removing o( tailings and fines from settling ponds. The costs of maintaining pond operations can vary significantly from plant to plant. Not only is valuable space tied up ...

Construction on 1-99 in Pennsylvania unearths pyretic rock; Geotube units used to contain minerals that could contaminate groundwater. Many states are faced with the problem of dealing with tailings and residues from mining, road building, and other sources that pose a threat to groundwater. Residues can come from both old inventories of stockpiled material, as well as those materials ...

The Ili River is a very important river to the northwest of China and Kazakhstan. The Axi Goldmine is located in the upstream of a branch of the Ili River. The cyanide from the goldmine effluent is a threat to the downstream areas. According to our study, the natural degradation of cyanide conforms to a negative exponential equation in the tailings impoundment, second wastewater pond and even in ...

On this week’s edition of EHS This Week we’ve got the week’s top stories in environment, health and safety news: Large Chemical Explosion in Massachusetts Brazilian Tailing Ponds Measurement Errors Remember to write ...

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